Watson comfortable with 'vitamins,' father says

Essendon champion Tim Watson says his son - club captain Jobe - had no concerns about controversial injections administered to team members amid suggestions the substances may have been illegal.

Watson senior, a presenter on sports radio station SEN, said in a broadcast Thursday morning that that Jobe knew exactly what vitamins he was taking.

The remarks came as concerns about the nature of the supplements players received at the hands of a club sports scientist, Stephen Dank, grew.

"He [Jobe] said that when this all blows over at some point, and it will, he'd be happy to talk about it in greater detail so that he can allay any fears that anyone may have about what they did being untoward in any way," Watson senior said.

"They all wanted to be completely at ease that everything that they were taking was WADA [World Anti-Doping Agency] checked-off ... and that the club doctors had checked it off as well."

Watson senior said his son, the reigning Brownlow medallist, "could not have been more relaxed about this".

"He said they're concerned about the attention, obviously, being focused on the football club and he alluded to things that have been written this morning – about how this is far broader than just the Essendon football club."

Fairfax Media has reported that players, after signing consent forms about taking substances, also signed confidentiality agreements because the club did not want its practices becoming known to opposition teams.

Watson said he had "no understanding of that whatsoever".

It comes as former Bomber Mark McVeigh slammed claims by former player Kyle Reimers that the supplements taken were "right on the borderline".

"I knew 100 per cent that it was within the WADA and the AFL doping regulations," he said on SEN on Wednesday.

"Kyle Reimers has come out and said some things that are untrue. He is a disgruntled player, was delisted from the football club, very rarely turned up for pre-season training in any sort of form that resembled a professional footballer.

"It wasn't a waiver, it was a consent form. It was clearly stated to us what we were taking. If you didn't know, you must have been asleep in the meeting. You know what, Kyle probably was."

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